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Elsevier Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development 2021 Edition by D. P. Singh, A. K. Singh, A. Singh
Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development features an optimal balance between classical and modern tools and techniques related to plant breeding. Written for a global audience and based on the extensive international experience of the authors, the book features pertinent examples from major and minor world crops. Advanced data analytics (machine learning), phenomics and artificial intelligence are explored in the book's 28 chapters that cover classical and modern plant breeding. By presenting these advancements in specific detail, private and public sector breeding programs will learn about new, effective and efficient implementation.The insights are clear enough that non-plant breeding majoring students will find it useful to learn about the subject, while advanced level students and researchers and practitioners will find practical examples that help them implement their work. Table of Contents : 1. Plant Breeding - Past, Present, and Future Perspectives2. Mode of Reproduction in Crop Plants3. Genetics in Relation to Plant Breeding4. Primer on Population and Quantitative Genetics5. Plant Genetic Resources6. Wilde Hybridization7. Haploids and Polyploidy8. Hybridization and Selection in Self-Pollinated Crops9. Mass and Pure Line Selection10. Bulk Method11. Pedigree Method12. Single Seed Descent Method13. Backcross Method14. Mutation Breeding15. Inbreeding Depression and Heterosis16. Population Improvement17. Recurrent Selection in Self-pollinated Crops18. Synthetic and Composite Varieties19. Hybrid Varieties20. Breeding Methods Used in Asexual Crops21. Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses22. Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses23. Intellectual Property Rights and Protection24. Participatory Plant Breeding25. Breeding of Crop Ideotypes26. Field Plot Designs in Plant Breeding27. Molecular Tools in Crop Improvement and Cultivar Development28. Phenomics and Machine Learning in Crop Improvement